On August 13, 212, the king of Chu announced that he would marry Ma Yunluo, the daughter of Ma Teng in Liangzhou, as a concubine, and spread it to the whole country!

On this day, in the wilderness outside the southern city of Qi County, it was completely occupied by a sea of petals, and in the cheers of some local people and the soldiers of Chu State, Wang Xu and Ma Yunluo bathed in flying petals, rode a snow-white BMW, and completed a simple but warm ceremony.

At that moment, Ma Yunluo finally showed a smile from the heart, in the atmosphere that Wang Xu deliberately created, put aside his troubles and forgot his sorrows, there was no King of Chu, no war, only a woman enjoying the happiness given to him by her beloved man! Her crisp laughter like a yellow warbler echoed in every corner of Qi County!

The history books also recorded this day, not only because there was another concubine in the Chu State, but also because today has a very special meaning. Later generations of scholars have set this day as the end of the "King of Chu's Western Expedition" and the beginning of the "War of Unification", which became a dividing line.

It was from this day that the state of Chu was recognized by later generations as shifting from the separatist power of the Han Dynasty to the orthodox royal power.

The reason for this is because of the huge impact of this move!

Five days after the king of Chu, Nama Yunluo, was the concubine, Cao Cao had to quickly report the news, and was silent for most of the day!

He understands that Xiliang is finished!

Subsequently, he ordered the general of the front, Xiahoudun, to withdraw his troops and return to the court, and strictly ordered all departments to stick to the dangerous border and maintain stability!

On the other side, the state of Wu was faster, and the general Zhou Yu decisively withdrew his troops without waiting for the order of Sun Jian, the king of Wu, and at the same time carried out a comprehensive rectification of the border and adjusted the defensive deployment!

As for the Liangzhou forces, they are even more in a great contradiction!

Internally, it quickly split into two major factions. One faction descended. A faction of the main battle. There is no earlier unity,

The war-weariness of the Han soldiers in the army has risen to the extreme, and there is continued friction and contradiction with the soldiers of the Qiang, Hu and other ethnic groups, and riots may occur at any time in many places.

The Han people in Liangzhou began to publicly reprimand the Ma family, believing that they were pretending to resist and collect the people's taxes, while secretly approaching the king of Chu for their own interests. It was said that it was after knowing that it was about to lose ground. Regardless of the lives of the soldiers and the people, they seek their own interests!

Driven by the rumors of the Chu State, this trend has become more and more intense, and it has spread widely, coupled with Ma Yunluo's frequent accompaniment to Wang Xu, to appease the soldiers and people of Liangzhou, and completely let the foundation of Liangzhou collapse, only Qiang, Hu and other foreign races are not affected, and still firmly support the Ma family!

At the end of September, riots began in Liangzhou. Rebellions broke out frequently in various armies and units, and groups of Han Chinese sergeants fled the army. Surrendered to the side of the Chu State, and the situation took a sharp turn for the worse.

In mid-November, Liangzhou was already on the verge of falling apart at any time.

On November 21, more than 20,000 grassland warriors suddenly attacked Wuwei and directly took the Liangzhou Zhishou Guzang, where only some Praetorian Guards and city defense troops remained!

When Ma Teng, Ma Yi and others on the front line heard the news, they panicked and hurriedly sent sergeants to rescue them, but as soon as they reached the halfway point, Guzang had already fallen, and all the families and subordinates of the high-level people in Liangzhou were captured!

This heavenly lion is the tribe led by Zhou Zhi, who has continued to annex small tribes throughout the year, divided the harvest according to the original agreement, and quickly gained the trust of Tuoba Xianbei.

The Tuoba Department tasted the sweetness in a short period of time, and its appetite naturally became bigger and bigger, as if it was addicted, and with the support of some other large tribes, Zhou Zhi gradually no longer annexed small tribes, but turned the spearhead to medium-sized tribes, and even larger tribes.

Because he is very good at being a man, and he has never changed his original intention, whether it is the Tuoba Department or several other large tribes, he trusts him very much, although his tribe is getting stronger and stronger, and it has grown to fifty or sixty thousand warriors in just one year, but the Tuoba Department is not worried, because they rely on Zhou Zhi as a shield, they have become more powerful, and the entire grassland where the Tuoba hegemony is located, they have almost completed the unification of the south, which is what they wanted to do before but have never been able to do.

It was at this time that Zhou Zhi proposed that he intended to go south to the territory of the Han Dynasty and take advantage of the war between Liangzhou and Chu to plunder Liangzhou.

Such a request certainly did not arouse Tuoba's doubts, and they were even very happy.

Although robbing the Han Realm can get a lot of supplies, it will lose many warriors, which the Xianbei tribe has always known, and now Zhou Zhi is willing to take the initiative to go, not only can weaken the strength of this tribe, but also can share a lot of property in vain after it returns, how can the Tuoba family not agree?

In order to realize this plan, Zhou Zhi also migrated the entire tribe to the grasslands near the Han border to facilitate movement and aftermath.

The loss of Gu Zang was definitely a fatal blow to the Ma family, and they had no choice but to give up.

On the first day of December, Ma Teng asked for a written surrender!

Wang Xu agreed, and ordered the Ma family to go to Lingjing to meet immediately, and at the same time ordered all the Liangzhou troops to lay down their arms, take 100 people as a team, and fully accept the supervision and deployment of the Chu army.

At this point, Liangzhou is preliminary!

Ten days later, the Ma family arrived in Lingjing, and Wang Xunong took the letter of surrender, which meant that everything was a foregone conclusion.

At night, the cold wind is howling and the snow is flying!

Wang Xu came to the top of a mountain outside the city and walked slowly on the snow, letting the snowflakes stain his body.

"Put down your wine and go to the mountainside to light a fire to keep warm!" He commanded his attendant.

"No!" The entourage was already too cold to be able to do so, and as if they had been pardoned, they left the top of the mountain in the blink of an eye.

Wang Xu was silent for a moment, then broke off a dry branch and scratched it on the snow.

Soon, two different footsteps sounded, and he smiled knowingly and threw away the branch in his hand.

Ma Yi followed Xiangtian quietly to the top of the mountain, and when he saw the nightmarish figure, his eyes instantly became more complicated and worried, he was already haggard at the moment, his beard was thick, and his eyes were full of sorrow, as if he was twenty years old.

"Sit!" Wang Xu smiled and pointed to the snow.

Ma Yi stood in the snowflakes, his expression changed, and finally he sat on the snow with a sigh as if he had accepted his fate: "You still won't let me go after all, I already understood!" ”

"Why?" Wang Xu seemed to be smiling, reached out and grabbed a pot of wine jar, and patted the mud open. I drank it directly.

"I'm a different person!" Ma Yi looked straight at Wang Xu, who was doing nothing. As if hoping to find something.

"Oh! Do you mean from the Hereafter? So is the one next to you! ”

"Him?" Ma Yi was stunned. Then he looked over and said in surprise: "Xiang Tian, the number one master of the Chu State, is also a person of the next generation?" ”

"What's so strange about that?"

Xiang Tian smiled faintly, then sat down next to him and grabbed a pot of wine.

The snow still kept falling, hitting the heads of the three of them, Ma Yi looked at the indifferent Wang Xu and Xiang Tian, and endless doubts surged in his heart.

"Why, why do you live along?"

"Then why can't we get along?" Wink at the sky. smiled and said: "But they are all people, can't they make friends?" Does this have anything to do with coming from the Hereafter? ”

"But aren't you worried about the other party hurting you?" Ma Yi was even more puzzled.

Wang Xu smiled: "Why don't you understand, if there is no fight, why should we harm each other?" ”

"Fight for the world!" Ma Yi said with a calm face.

"Hmmm! This is a reason, but Han Sui originally wanted to fight for the world, why did you accept his surrender even if you won the war? ”

"Because he has already lost and has no chance, there is no need to kill for the sake of the overall situation, it is more useful to stay, and I have no personal grudge against him!" Ma Yi finished speaking. But he paused suddenly.

Wang Xu looked over: "That's not it!" Is that still a reason? ”

"But the future generations are different!"

"What's different?"

"We know history!"

Wang Xu rolled his eyes, crying and laughing. "Alright! Now that you know history. So you know I'm going to beat you today? History changes, and so do people, don't they? Wei Yan was unruly in history, can you think that he has become a calm and resourceful general today? Wang Ling was loyal to Cao Wei in history, but why did he finally take refuge in Chu? Do you dare to hurt me now because you know history, and you can turn the tables around? Can you flipped it over and showed it to me? ”

"......" Ma Yi was speechless.

Looking at his pitiful appearance to the sky, he couldn't help but take over with a smile: "Ma Yi, only what happened in the past is called history, you are in this era, this era is no longer history for you, it is now!" You live in history, in your own inner imagination, how do you understand what is happening now? You are imprisoned by the concept of history in your mind, can Zhao Yun not surrender? Try killing his wife and children to see if he will rebel? ”

"Hey! Xiangtian, speak well, his wife is my eldest sister! Wang Xu glared at him instantly.

"Ahem...... Sorry, forgot! Xiang Tian shook his head awkwardly, and continued: "The world is changing, the only constant is change, you always think about what happened in history, don't judge for yourself, don't find out for yourself, the devil knows what it is!" Will the Hereafter not change when they come? Zhang Jing was made like that by his former good brother, he has experienced so much, and his heart has changed greatly, isn't it a change? Haven't you changed? ”

"I've been living in my own world for so many years?" Ma Yi understood a little, and looked stunned.

"But isn't it, if you are an ordinary person, don't get ahead, don't go to the battlefield, live an ordinary life, have no hatred with us, live your own life, I have nothing to do to kill you? Aren't all future generations the same as modern people? The key is to see what you do, whether there is a conflict or not, that's the essence, right? ”

As he spoke, he poured a large sip of liquor into the sky, and continued casually: "I have a deep relationship with the boss and Zhou Zhi, and they are all quite satisfied, why do you want to fight?" As for who is the king of Chu, the boss is the most capable, he took the lead in doing it, and he did it so well, so that everyone was convinced, and he had that prestige, naturally he was him, if you did the best back then, I would also go to you, it's so simple, why do you think it's so complicated! ”

With these words, Ma Yi was already stunned, and the whole person was stunned!

Wang Xu looked at his appearance, shook his head funny, grabbed a pot of spirits and threw it over.

"Take two sips! Sober up! ”

Ma Yi seemed to be stimulated, took the flask, patted the sealing mud, and poured several sips of "grunt", and then suddenly shouted: "I really lived for decades in vain, right!" What am I afraid of, as long as I don't rebel, abide by the law, and live my life well, what are you killing me for? ”

"That's right! What are we going to do with you? You don't threaten now, you haven't done anything wrong, to put it bluntly, we're still fellow countrymen, we have more of the same thoughts and cognitions, and it's not bad to be friends! You have lost the battle for the world, and the boss should not kill you in state affairs, and he has no desire to kill you personally, so you will have a good life in the future! Xiang Tian looked at him and said.

"Ahem...... That sister is now a concubine, and he is still one of the uncles of Chu State! ”

Wang Xu took over with some embarrassment. (To be continued......)